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Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million to promote Windows Phone in Q4 of 2011

By: Sahil Bones Gupta |Jan 26th, 2012 at 07:04PM
Filed Under: Breaking, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft blog, Microsoft employee, Mobile, News, Nokia, Windows Phone 7 Mango

While Nokia’s Q4 report did not open a Pandora’s box, it did manage to spring in a few surprising factoids.  The most interesting was the $250 million “Platform support Payment” that Microsoft in Nokia’s favor to use Windows Phone in Q4 of 2011. While Nokia pays Microsoft a licensing fee like all other Windows Phone OEMs it does appear that due to the special relationship Nokia harbors with Redmond, they could perhaps be paying much less than any other OEM. Previously it has been reported that ...